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While I was in junior high, I wrote an entire essay in rhyme about manufacturing in New York State. In high school, I won a Scholastic poetry contest.
Jane Yolen
School
State
High
High School
Entire
About
Poetry
Scholastic
New
Wrote
Contest
Won
Junior
Junior High
York
Essay
New York
New York State
Rhyme
While
Manufacturing
I collected child support in Dade County, and they wrote a rap song about me, so the kids knew about it, and they started asking me questions about child support. What happens if she wastes the money? What happens if he doesn't pay? And I answered the questions.
Janet Reno
Me
Song
Money
Pay
Kids
Rap
Collected
About
He
Knew
Support
County
Wrote
She
Answered
Questions
Child
Child Support
Happens
Asking
Wastes
Started
I think, when I wrote 'Children of Jihad,' I wrote it with a very optimistic view of what technology can do. Today I maintain that optimistic view, but I'm also aware of the challenges we have. So I would say I'm not a techno-utopian, but I'm a techno-pragmatist.
Jared Cohen
Today
Technology
Challenges
Think
Jihad
Say
Would
Maintain
Also
Wrote
Very
Optimistic
Children
View
Aware
I know people who have written big hit country songs that are really kind of terrible songs, but for the rest of their life, they're the guy who wrote that. You've got to be careful; if you don't want that to happen, don't write those songs.
Jason Isbell
Life
You
People
Rest
Country
Big
Those
Kind
Be Careful
Guy
Write
Songs
Written
Know
Wrote
Terrible
Got
Big Hit
Hit
Want
Happen
Really
Who
Careful
I couldn't get a job to save my life. That's why I wrote 'Road to Paloma.' That got into Sundance and got into that scene, and that's how I got the role in 'The Red Road.'
Jason Momoa
Life
Job
My Life
Sundance
Scene
Road
Red
Wrote
Got
How
Role
Get
Why
Save
I'm a massive movie nerd. That being said, I could retire tomorrow because I wrote this movie 'Goon' and it came out, and it connected and it's a wonderful flick that I think is beautiful and then it had this wonderful life and it means a lot to a lot of people.
Jay Baruchel
Life
Beautiful
People
Wonderful
Tomorrow
Think
Out
Nerd
Could
Had
Retire
Massive
Wrote
Because
Said
Came
Lot
Wonderful Life
Being
Movie
Then
Means
Flick
Connected
Some of my biggest commercial musical influences would be people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, of course, Johnny Cash. People that wrote and sang their own stuff, I really admired.
Jay DeMarcus
People
Own
Musical
Would
Would-Be
Admired
Some
Cash
Johnny
Johnny Cash
Haggard
Stuff
Merle Haggard
Like
Wrote
Course
George
Commercial
Influences
Biggest
Really
Sang
There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Recording
Stars
Papers
Tell
Scared
Some
About
Case
Something
Wrong
Also
Wrote
Reporter
Movie
Movie Stars
Them
Hollywood
My mother was an actress in comedies. My father wrote scenarios. They were not opposed to my being an actor. I really didn't know what it meant, but I wanted to be one anyway.
Jean-Pierre Leaud
Mother
Father
Scenarios
Know
Comedies
Wrote
Opposed
Were
Being
Wanted
Anyway
Really
Meant
Actor
Actress
Nobody ever wrote better about domestic things than Robert Benchley.
Jean Kerr
Better
About
Nobody
Robert
Wrote
Domestic
Than
Ever
Things
The idea of a physical stigma is quite appealing. When I wrote the book of 'Bodies,' there was a lot of that in the book about how there are physical manifestations of psychological problems - I think it's described as 'Narrativizing The Body.'
Jed Mercurio
Book
Problems
Think
Physical
About
Idea
Wrote
How
Stigma
Lot
Quite
Psychological
Bodies
Body
Appealing
I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.
Jeff Ament
Song
Down
Everything
Someone
Write
Wrote
Talking
Said
Just
Room
After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.
Jeff Greenfield
Myself
Thought
College
Mysteries
Case
Wrote
Obvious
Came
Than
After
Electoral
Electoral College
Less
Novel
Originally
Away
Believing
I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them.
Jeff Kinney
Words
Locked
Pictures
Wrote
Get
Them
Speeches
I wrote 'Mud' for Matthew McConaughey and had never met him.
Jeff Nichols
Met
Never
Had
Wrote
Him
Matthew
Mud
When I was a kid, I wanted to be That Girl. I even wrote a spec script for it and sent it to Sam Denoff.
Jeffrey Klarik
Girl
Kid
Wrote
Sam
Wanted
Script
Sent
Even
When my plans to become a world-famous rockstar didn't pan out, I decided to try being a lesbian instead, didn't pull that off either, and wrote my second book, the national bestseller, 'The Straight Girl's Guide To Sleeping With Chicks.'
Jen Sincero
Book
Try
Girl
Become
National
Lesbian
Sleeping
Guide
Out
Bestseller
Instead
Wrote
Off
Chicks
Being
Decided
Either
Straight
Plans
Second
Pan
Pull
'Malandrinas' means 'bad girls,' but not bad in a negative way. I wrote it in homage to my female fans.
Jenni Rivera
Fans
Negative
Girl
Negative Way
Way
Bad
Bad Girls
Wrote
Female
Means
Homage
My first celebrity crush was Jonathan Brandis. I even got to talk to him on the phone. I wrote a fan letter, and he answered. Talk about a surreal experience.
Jennifer Armentrout
Experience
Phone
First
About
He
Jonathan
Crush
Talk
Wrote
Him
Answered
Got
Surreal
Celebrity
Fan
Even
Letter
I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.
Jennifer Egan
Work
Me
Reading
Way
Though
Would
Seems
Outpouring
Write
Unconscious
Generate
Steps
Most
Mess
Wrote
Read
Material
Want
Anyone
Anything
Interesting
Creating
Many
Away
I loved the last album, and it was one hundred percent me. But this is like me two years later, who understands a little bit more about music and understands a little bit more about making an album. I wrote a lot more.
Jennifer Lopez
Music
Me
Hundred
Later
Bit
About
Percent
More
Like
Wrote
Understands
Making
Years
Lot
Loved
Little
Little Bit
Who
Album
Last
Two
I never wrote. I also never really thought about being an actor. But when it was time to go to high school, we couldn't afford private school, so I tried out for all the special schools in New York.
Jennifer Salt
Time
School
Thought
Out
High
Tried
High School
About
Never
New
Also
Schools
Wrote
Go
Private
Private School
Afford
York
New York
Being
Really
Special
Actor
I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.
Jennifer Weiner
Life
My Life
First
Single
Books
Kid
Married
Had
Wrote
Got
Were
Different
Happening
Then
Different Things
Things
I was in Minnesota and Illinois when I wrote 'How to Leave Hialeah.' When I come to Miami, I'm happy. I don't need to write in Miami.
Jennine Capó Crucet
Happy
Minnesota
Write
Come
Wrote
How
Leave
Miami
Illinois
Need
The Rilo Kiley song 'A Better Son/Daughter' is my most requested song - especially for people who are at the age I was when I wrote it. It's sort of a mid-twenties lament.
Jenny Lewis
Age
People
Song
Better
Most
Wrote
Sort
Lament
Who
I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it for years, and it always seemed like it wouldn't catch fire. At a certain point I just scrapped it all, and I kept maybe 15 percent of it, and I wrote those parts out on note cards.
Jenny Offill
Fire
Those
Out
Classic
Seemed
Percent
More
Point
Had
Written
Catch
Like
Wrote
Parts
Always
Linear
Years
Maybe
Just
Note
Worked
Certain
Certain Point
Novel
Cards
Kept
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